The book, Hitler's War Machine presents a comprehensive account of Germany's strengths and weaknesses leading up to and during World War II. Although, the forces that Hitler unleashed in 1939 ultimately failed to achieve their goal, they constituted the most formidable war machine the world had ever known. Hitler waged war not only with military might but with economic measures, with coercion, with propaganda, with political skill and with leading edge technology. To many, however, Hitler's most deadly aspect was his own mesmeric personality, which he used in great quantities to revitalise the German people and to urge them forward against all enemies of the Third Reich. Before Hitler's ultimate failure and the collapse of the Third Reich, he and the German people achieved dramatic successes. "Hitler's War Machine" describes in vivid detail and through colorful illustrations those forces and why they failed in the end. The major sections of Hitler's War Machine is as follows: 1) Germany in the Thirties - a decade of regeneration; 2) The Home Front - the carrot and the stick; 3) The Economy - guns and butter; 4) Das Heer - an army of strengths and weaknesses; 5) Die Waffen -SS - a European crusade?; 6) Die Luftwaffe - strategically a failure; 7) Die Kriegsmarine - the neglected service; 8) Science and Technolgy - brilliance and confusion; 9) Nazi Political Warfare - persuasion and subversion and 10) Hitler - the supreme War Leader. In addition to an informative narrative, "Hitler's War Machine" includes the following features: 1) Approximately 200 black and white photographs; 2) About 50 color photographs; 3) 13 color illustrations; 4) 4 maps; 5) 12 color armor profile illustrations with specifications; 6) 12 black and white side aircraft profile illustrations; 7) 1 Heinkel He 111 H-3 black and white cut-away illustration with component descriptions; 8) 16 color side aircraft profile illustrations; 9) 1 Junkers Ju-87 black and white illustration with component descriptions; 10) 1 Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-8 black and white illustration with component descriptions; 11) 1 Junkers Ju 88 G4 black and white illustration with component descriptions ; 12) 1 Messerschmit Bf 109 G-14/U4 black and white illustration with component descriptions; 13) 1 two-page color illustration titled: "Hitler's Aces"; 14) 1 two-view color Scharnhorst ship illustration with specifications; 15) 1 Gneisenau black and white ship illustration with specifications; 16) 1 Admiral Hipper black and white illustration with specifications; 17) 1 two-view color Admiral Graf Spee ship illustration with specifications; 18) 1 Prince Eugen black and white ship illustration with specifications; 19) 1 Tirpitz black and white ship illustration with specifications; 20) 1 two-view color Bismark ship illustration with specificaitons; 21) 1 Lutzow black and white ship illustration with specifications and 22) 1 Admiral Scheer black and white ship illustration with specifications. This book is 248 pages and is in good condition. The authors are Dr. William Carr, Robert Cecil CMG, Matthew Cooper, Richard Humble, Dr. Paul Kennedy, Professor Donald Watt and Dr. Z.A.B. Zeman. Edition published in 1975.